The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-09-14
ENERGETIC NINETY-SIX.
Business OutiOok---Sig Corn Sto"S'--
Farmers Meeting Next Saturday..
yaxx Gin--Sncicty Matters.
New Gin---SO,

NISErY-SIN s. G.. Sept. ~ 1887.
Mr.. Gus Harrison, who lives near Nihe.s
! Six Informs us through one o! MS hcighnuIs
! tllat he has six acres of corn that VIII MAKE
! forty bushels per acre. II Is ptlnito ln'Tts
inches apart. six inches IN tn" drlii' nhu lie
that he verify SHeyfs ts lde rder and run
through this field that the cars "ou'o XIII
! him. - ,.
Company, Mr.. Henry r; Turner, mas iSSmeu @
about twenty policies. This Is rather eNtrtol,
dinary work for the time he has been engage"
At It.
been taken and the country is safe. Gooas
are daily arriving from the North ana Weal;
| and from the figures quite Il boom is eNpecteu
in trade this fall and winter. All we ask is Il
! fair square trial. and if we don't sell you
| goods nS cheap as they can be bought elsc-
where, then we will have no more to say
about 1t. go
Mr.. McSwain Of Sumter county, with his
wife and daughter arc here visiting Maj. II.
p. Galphin and family. .
| Mrs. r. +. McCaslan has returned from Il
pleasant visit to friends at Due West.
Mr.. G. T. Jackson has hoiStcd his sign ana
opened a new grocery store. whore you will
find every thing usually kept in that line.
Ninety-SiX division of Sons OF Temperance
Our merchants have returned from New
| York and other Northern markets, and rcrort
having bought immense stocks OF goous ana
to get rid Of them will be obliged TO sell them
cheap. ~
MIR. w. s. Richardson has the prettiest yard
Of pure light Bramah chickens we have ever
seen.
! Miss Nina Smith, Of Chappells, is visiting
the Misses BoZcman.
Mr. A. Me- Turner, the proprietor of onr
popular hotel has been suffering with chiilS
but is up and oct again.
Mr.. John Prult, OF Bradley. was in town one
day last week.
l:dgefleld last Wednesday to attend Baptist
Association.
Mr.. f. S. Addison is now offering his crop of
"the original rust proof red oats for sale.
Our experience with Western oats Is not pleas
ant and in the future il we can't get the Caro-
lima rust proof we will not SOW at all.
Mr.. j. r. Dover. Of North Carolina, Is mere
buying cotton for Messrs. Carroll &Stacy. ne
deals fairly and honestly and the farmers are
we'll pleased with him.
Miss Lutte Bozeman left last Saturday for
Boutetort Springs. Virginia, where she Will
attend Hollins Institute. ,
Dr. Blake will read his production on the
Boy, his origin, habits and peculiariticS at the
next meeting of the Division OF Sons OF rem
live article and we hope every member Of the
order will turn out to hear 1t.
Before another issue of this paper one OF
our Ninety-SiX young men Will have taken
unto himself one of the fairest OF the fair
daughters Of Laurens. Particulars next week
Mr.. $. NJ. Davis has invented new GIN. II
IS so constructed as to clean the cotton rom
The seed without the aid Of the old fashioned
gin" as there Is no danger Of cutting your
hands in using 1t. He will have one In opera.
tion In Il few days.
Mr.. J. Addison Calhoun and Mr.. John f.
Watson are now with MessrS. Miller & McCas-
Ian, ami will he glad to see their friends who
desire to purchase goods.
Don't forget to attend the next meeting OF
the Sons of Temperance.
Mr.. George P. IIill a prosperous merchant
Of Chappels, was happily married on last
Thursday to Miss Celia Lyon, also of Chap:
pcllS. The marriage ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Mr.. Mathews, of Greenwood. The
happy couple have our best wishes.
Ninety-SiX Is on n boom. More cheap goods
than were ever in the market before.
Mr.. +. T.. Logan has fine crop, fine colt,
and last but not least boy baby. He Is hap
py beyond measure.
Mr.. j. Nick Johnson left yesterday for Sa.
vannah 10 take charge of the Western Union
telegraph office at that place.
The cotton market closed on yesterday eve
ming at cents.
Mr.. r Griffin johnson, formerly OF this
place, but who has been liviug in Baltimore,
will move back to Ninety-SiX In October.
There is no place like Ninety-Six 10 those who
have once lived here.
We hope every farmer in the vicinity OF
Ninciy-SiX will turn out on next Friday eve
ming. 1t will be n regular farmers meeting,
the object Of which will be 10 organize the
Stock Fair Association. EAST END.